Device for detachably securing bands to buckles.



No. 790,585. PATENTED MAY-23,1905. E. M. MITCHELL & A. N. BEACH.

DEVICE FOR DBTACHABLY SECURING BANDS TO BUGKLES.

APPLIOATION FILED we. a, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ELLA M. MITCHELL AND ALICE N. BEACH, oE BRIDGEPORT, CON- N CTICUT.

DEVICE FOR DETACHABLY SECURING BANDS TO BUCKLES.

, SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 7 90,585, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed August 9, 1904. derial No. 220,082. I

residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new anduseful Device for Detachably Securing Bands to Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has for its object to provide fasteners which may be blanked out from sheet metal and formed at trifling expense which will enable a lady in an instants time and without the use of needle and thread to detachably but positively secure the opposite ends of a band as, for example, a belt or garter-to the members of a buckle insuch a manner that the ends of the band cannot slip on the attaching-bars.

It is of course well understood that in making changes in costumes frequent changes of belts and other bandsare required to complete and perfect the costume. This necessitates the use of a number of buckles or else the frequent stitching of the ends of bands to the buckle members. Not infrequently ladies are the possessors of favorite and expensive buckles which they like to Wear with different costumes. The ripping off of the members of a buckle from the ends of a band and the attachment by sewing of the buckle members to the ends of another band is an operation requiring some little time and is often quite inconvenient to do in making hasty changes of toilet, especially if without the assistance of a maid.

Our present invention provides fasteners which may be produced at nominal cost and may be furnished with the buckles or sold independently of buckles, which dispense with the use of needle and thread and enable a lady to instantly detach the ends of a band from the members of a favorite buckle and to attach the ends ofanother band thereto without the use of any implements whatever and without injury to the ends of the band, and, moreover, in such a manner that the ends of the band cannot slip or slide on the attachingbars, thus providing that bands may be used buckle connected together and showing the 7 ends of a band attached thereto by means of our novel fastener; Fig. 2, a rear view of-one of the buckle members detached with one of our novel fasteners in place thereon as when in use, the end of the band being omitted for the sake of clearness in illustration; Fig. 3, a Section, on an enlarged scale, on the line 3 4 in Fig. 2; Fig. 4:, a similar section showing the end of a band attached to a buckle member by means of afastener; and Fig. 5 is a perspective, on the same scale, of a fastener detached.

A and B indicate the buckle members, which are provided with complementary means for connecting them together. In the presentinstance member A is provided with a rigid hook 12, which is adapted to engage a .rigid loop 13 on member B. Both members are shown as provided with the usual attachingbars 14, to which the ends of the band are attached heretofore, so far as we are aware, by

the useof needle and thread.

0 indicates our novel fastener as a whole,

the same consisting of a plate 15, provided dicated by D) that is to be attached to abuckle member. The plate, with its books and prongs, may be blanked out in a single piece from sheet metal. We have shown the hooks and prongs as extending from one side of the plate, the hooks lying upon one side of the plate and the prongs upon the other side, although it should be understood that the details of construction may be greatly varied without departing from the principle of the invention. I

The operation will be readily understood from the drawings. (See more especially Fig. 4.) To attach a band to a buckle two of the fasteners are required, one for each of the buckle members. In attaching the operator simply passes the prongs through the band near its end and then rotates the fastener, winding the end of the band once or twice about it, as clearly shown in Fig. i, in which the end of the band after being engaged by the prongs is shown as wound once about the fastener. After winding the end of the band upon the fastener the operator engages the hooks with an attaching-bar, as clearly shown, thereby connecting that end of the band with one of the buckle members, the operation being repeated to secure the other end of the band to the other buckle member. To detach a band from a buckle, the operator simply detaches the hooks upon the fasteners from the attaching-bars and un- Winds the fasteners from the ends of the band. Owing to the fact that the prongs 17 extend from the plate in a direction opposite to that of the'hooks 16 the belt-band must of necessity be so engaged with the prongs that when the band is wrapped around the plate 15 and the device applied to use any such pull upon the band as would tend to rotate the plate will only serve to more certainly preserve the engagement of the hooks 16 with the attaching-bar 14 of the buckle member. It

will also be observed that the hooks 16 are located only at or near the ends of the plate,

the prongs 17 being intermediate of said hooks. Therefore the band is wrapped on the plate between the hooks 16, so as to leave the latter free to engage an attaching-bar '14 of a buckle member. Furthermore, the device permits of a ready adjustment being made in the operative length of the belt-band by rotating the plate so as to wrap the band around it a varying number of coils.

Having thus described our invention, we claim-- 1. A fastener for the purpose set forth comprising a plate having hooks bent in one direction therefrom and spaced apart and prongs opposite the space between said hooks and bent in a direction opposite to that of the hooks.

2. The combination with a buckle member provided with an attaching-bar, of a fastener comprising a plate having hooks bent in one direction therefrom and spaced apart and adapted to engage the attaching-bar of the buckle member, the said plate having prongs opposite the space between said hooks and bent in a direction opposite to that of the hooks and adapted to engage the end of a band which may be wrapped around the plate between said hooks.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ELLA M. h IlllCIIELL. ALICE N. BEACH.

W'itnesses:

A. M. lVoosTnR, S. W. ATHERTON. 

